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On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 |
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> Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about |
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> > > which I'm poorly informed. |
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> > > |
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> > > Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, so I |
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> > > started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev |
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> > > (which didn't affect /dev/pt*). |
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> > Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal |
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> > emulator in X)? |
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> > |
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> > /dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo filesystem. In |
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> > modern versions of linux the pts devices are created on-the-fly when |
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> > requested (as opposed to other versions and some modern unixes where |
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> > there will be a fixed number of device nodes under /dev/pts or |
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> > equivalent). All that just goes to say that if /dev/pts is empty |
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> > right after you restart the devfs service, it is normal. A device file |
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> > should be created automatically now when userspace programs demand it. |
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> > (E.g. if you now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show |
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> > one entry.) |
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> > |
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> > Try it, let me know if the problem is still there. |
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> Nope. Both ssh and X terminal emulators are still broken. No change |
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> in behavior. |
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> FWIW, most of the entries in /dev are timestamped 02/02 23:34 which is |
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> when I updated udev earlier this week. Today's upgrade/downgrade emerge |
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> hasn't affected the timestamps. |
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> A comparison of /etc/udev/rules.d to a saved copy didn't show |
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> much. The only puzzling difference is: |
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> --- 90-hal.rules (revision 51) |
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> +++ 90-hal.rules (working copy) |
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> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ |
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> # pass all events to the HAL daemon |
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> -RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" |
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> +RUN+="socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" |
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> removing the "@" and restarting udev hasn't helped. Since the rule is |
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> hal related, I also restarted hald -- which hasn't helped. |
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What happens if you do: |
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mount -t devpts none /dev/pts |
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Does the problem go away? |
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-James |
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